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Samar Albadawi, a divorced Saudi woman is currently being held in Brayman jail in Jeddah for disobeying her father. The story was on top of the Saudi trends on Twitter -under the hashtags #samar and #Samar- since the weekend. According to the documents published in a blog post, by Fouad Al-Farhan, the judge Abdullah Al-Othaim ruled in favour of her abusive drug-addicted father despite of the apparent evidence against him, family members testimonies against him, and letters addressing the issue from Royal authorities against the judge's verdict.

Samar's story caused a controversy on social media websites and blogs. While some stood by Samar's side, supporting her cause and “re-tweeting” blog entries calling to free her, others questioned the documents published in the blog, and whether they were official or not.

Free Samar !

Saudis are standing up for Samar in every possible way; blog entries, Facebook profiles photos, tweets and designs.
Below are some reactions from some supporters.

A Saudi lady, a daughter of my country, imprisoned for six and a half months, with no ruling, denied from seeing her son. And someone is asking me why am I defending her? Where is the sense of freedom?

221 votes. 53 percent will support no one until they hear both sides. 36 percent support Samar's cause without hearing the father's story.

Waiting

Meanwhile, the support campaign is still progressing, and now has a Facebook fan page, a CrowdVoice page, and the Samar's hashtags are still active and trending in hope that an official move will be taken.